Re: March 18: Exploring z/OS Container Extensions Live Webcast

2020-03-18 Thread Timothy Sipples
Live Webcasts are sometimes prone to technical issues, but fortunately the "Exploring z/OS Container Extensions" virtual Meetup worked well with no apparent difficulties and plenty of great questions. Whether you were able to attend live or not, if you'd like to obtain the video recording

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-18 Thread scott Ford
R.S. ——. Absolutely magnificent Best Regards, Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 7:45 AM R.S. wrote: > Regarding cloud: it's trendy. Fashionable. > It's like many other buzzwords from the past. > It doesn't matter mainframe environment in your shop fulfills all cloud > advantages and more.

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: Documentation just takes up too much space | Computerworld

2020-03-18 Thread Wayne Driscoll
At a prior ISV employer in the mid 90's I recall an executive saying that the companies #2 expense (behind employee salary) was the cost to print manuals. Wayne Driscoll Rocket Software Note - All opinions are strictly my own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On

Re: another Newbie VTAM question

2020-03-18 Thread Allan Staller
I did this back in 2009. ISTR, this was (at most) a VTAM restart, an IPL was not required. I probably IPL'ed anyway. There are a couple of Redbooks on EE Implementation. Search the Redbooks site for the actual manuals. They should have the required info. HTH, -Original Message- From:

another Newbie VTAM question

2020-03-18 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Another newbie VTAM question, is there a way to dynamically turn on APPN without an IPL? We don't have any of the APPN startup parms coded, when the last IPL was done and the next one isn't until late April. Any ideas or tricks? Thanks, Jerry

Re: IGGCSI00 and REXX

2020-03-18 Thread scott Ford
Brian , Thats another good example as well as what Al said. I havent used java much on z/OS ...so i cant comment on it. Scott On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 1:05 AM Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > How about the rexx exec IGGCSIRX in SYS1.SAMPLIB? > > There is also a share

Re: z/OSMF and z/OSMF "Lite"

2020-03-18 Thread Marna WALLE
Mark, It sounds like you might have a somewhat ongoing requirement to have z/OSMF Lite to test your products with, until such time as you feel your customers have moved up to a more full z/OSMF system. This could be a case where you'd want to have another z/OSMF server configured separately

Re: Mainframe growth for the next decade!

2020-03-18 Thread R.S.
Regarding cloud: it's trendy. Fashionable. It's like many other buzzwords from the past. It doesn't matter mainframe environment in your shop fulfills all cloud advantages and more. Cloud has to be from Google, Amazon, Microsoft. The brand name has to be trendy. Security? Nevermind! Many other